Ep. 96 ft. Ally Hilfiger - Bite Me: Living with Chronic Lyme Disease, the Healing Journey & Coming Out on the Other Side
The Balanced Blonde // Soul On Fire
Dear Media
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2018
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Jordan chats with Ally Hilfiger, the author of Bite Me: How Lyme Disease Stole My Childhood, Made Me Crazy, and Almost Killed Me and a huge advocate for all of the warriors out there struggling with Chronic Lyme, late stage neurological Lyme disease, and chronic illness in general. As someone who lived through the pain and the struggle firsthand for MANY years, Ally has a much-appreciated perspective on Lyme – and Jordan has a lot of questions! But don’t worry: this episode isn’t a downer at all!! It’s a very positive, lighthearted, and uplifting look at how we CAN heal from chronic illness, as Ally has.
The ladies discuss Ally’s descent into chronic Lyme disease and the many years she went undiagnosed, being misdiagnosed with everything under the sun. Eventually, Ally had to be institutionalized because no one could understand what was plaguing her, and it was there that she was finally diagnosed with late stage Lyme disease. Her journey is fascinating, inspiring, and a true reality for many who live with Lyme on a daily basis.
Ally + Jordan also get into Ally’s time on one of the very first reality TV shows (MTV’s Rich Girls), growing up in the Hilfiger fashion dynasty, meeting her now husband and having her beautiful daughter Harley, and the new clothing line that Ally is working on right now!
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Resources:
- Learn more at allyhilfiger.com
- Connect with Ally on IG: @allyhilfiger
- Bite Me: How Lyme Disease Stole My Childhood, Made Me Crazy, and Almost Killed Me by Ally Hilfiger
- Listen to Ally’s podcast: sit-inpodcast.com
- Check out globallymealliance.org
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my loves. Welcome back to the Balance Fond Podcast. |
| 0:17.2 | Soul on fire. We're going to make today's intro nice and short and sweet because I am |
| 0:25.4 | having quite the week with my lime symptoms and it's currently 1 o'clock p.m. on a Friday. |
| 0:35.8 | Although I don't know what day the week you'll be listening to this. Maybe Wednesday the day it comes out. |
| 0:42.3 | And I just got out of bed for the first time all day. Although I've been awake since 8 o'clock. |
| 0:50.8 | I've just been in bed and it's Hudson's birthday my little amazing spirit animal cat. So I've |
| 0:57.9 | just been cuddling with him working from bed trying to ramp up the energy to record this intro and |
| 1:08.3 | if you're listening and you just have no idea what lime disease symptoms are like and I sound like |
| 1:17.9 | you know just I'm speaking a foreign language to you because you just can't imagine what I'm talking |
| 1:24.5 | about and why I've been so bed ridden. Then you're in the right place because today we have an |
| 1:30.6 | absolute expert online disease Ali Hilfiger the author of Bite Me heard journey through so many |
| 1:39.2 | years battling this disease and just journey through her life. It's a memoir. It's an incredible |
| 1:46.0 | book. One of the very first books that was recommended to me when I was diagnosed just a little |
| 1:51.7 | over a month ago. I of course fell completely down the rabbit hole of all things Ali Hilfiger and |
| 1:59.6 | reached out to have her on the podcast. She was kind enough to say yes and come over and we had a |
| 2:06.5 | fabulous chat about all things lime. You might recognize Ali from a couple different places. She was |
| 2:13.9 | on one of the first ever reality TV shows called Rich Girls way back when I think I was in middle school |
| 2:22.2 | which makes sense because I'm just a couple years younger than her and she was right out of high |
| 2:27.9 | school when Rich Girls came out. So MTV's Rich Girls although as you know maybe from her book |
| 2:35.5 | it really didn't portray Ali the way that she actually is. So you'll enjoy getting a deeper look |
| 2:42.1 | into her heart and her personality and her soul today. She's also the daughter of Tommy Hilfiger. |
| 2:49.6 | So she comes from a long dynasty of fashion designers and she too is a designer. She had her own |
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